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Descriptive Summary
Joyce, James,
1882-1941James Joyce Collection
1899-196811 document boxes (4.58 linear
feet), 5 galley folders, 7 oversize flat filesHarry Ransom Center
University of Texas at AustinManuscripts and
correspondence make up the bulk of the Collection. Part of the collection
comprises original material, but most of the collection is material about
Joyce, including research and criticism.English.
Biographical Sketch

James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar,
a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy.
In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school
near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere
College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a
major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's
drama called

Drama and Life, which was suppressed by the
college president on moral grounds.

James Joyce's father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was a Cork man who had
inherited enough property to ensure a comfortable living from rents, but his
alcoholism led to a seemingly endless series of disasters which drove the
family to abject poverty by the time young Joyce was mature. His mother, Mary
Jane Murray, died of cancer soon after Joyce graduated from university; Joyce's
autobiographical counterpart

Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus, is haunted by her
memory. Young James was his father's favorite; he in turn seemed to forgive his
father's weaknesses. Many of James Joyce's fictional characters and stories are
indebted to his father's humorous stories of Dublin and its pubs.

After graduation Joyce went to Paris to study medicine, but he had
neither the funds to matriculate nor to pay for adequate food and lodging. He
made little progress in his medical studies because he used his time to read
widely in literature in preparation for his serious commitment to art. He
returned to Dublin to be with his dying mother, and for some time was at loose
ends. In 1904, perhaps on June 16, the day that

Ulysses takes place, Joyce eloped with a
chamber maid from Galway named Nora Barnacle, eventually accepting a position
as a teacher of English at the Berlitz School in Trieste. There two children
were born to the couple, Giorgio in 1906 and Lucia in 1907. (Joyce and Nora
were not to be formally wed until 1931.)

Joyce's published work began to appear in 1907 with his slim volume of
verse

Chamber Music. A number of his
Dubliners stories first appeared in the
Irish Homestead while George Russell (AE)
was editor. After considerable trouble with publishers fearing censorship,
Joyce finally saw
Dubliners appear as a collection of stories
in 1914. It was soon followed by
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in
1916, and his career as a writer was launched. He had captured the attention
and admiration of other writers, including the influential Ezra Pound.

In 1918 he published

Exiles. What secured for Joyce the attention
and respect of the literati was the appearance in periodical form of
Ulysses, for it was apparent that no
literary work remotely like it had ever been published. It is often said that
Joyce reinvented each genre as he wrote in it, but as yet there seemed to be no
genre into which
Ulysses could fit. In 1922
Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach of the
Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Co.
Ulysses, which reconstructs a day in the
life of a modern-day Jew in Dublin, patterned after the adventures of an epic
hero of Greece, was itself written by a wanderer; the book was begun in Zurich
and finished in Paris by an author who spoke to his family in Italian, who in
1941 would be laid to rest in a Swiss cemetery.

Joyce had a love-hate relationship with his native city, but in his
entire literary career he never really wrote about any other place. He often
said that if Dublin were destroyed he could recreate it from memory, street by
street and shop by shop. However, after his elopement in 1904 he never lived
there again, and visited infrequently. In 1915 he took his family from Trieste
to Zurich in anticipation of the outbreak of war, returning to live in Trieste
briefly at the end of World War I. In 1920, at the urging of Pound, he moved
with his family to Paris.

Soon after the publication of

Ulysses, Joyce began work on his final
literary work
Finnegans Wake, by far his most experimental
and perplexing. Though it was not published as a unified entity until 1939,
sections of it appeared in periodical form under its provisional title
Work in Progress. During these years Joyce
suffered from ocular problems and other medical difficulties. He underwent
surgery eleven times and was often quite blind. Shortly after the publication
of
Finnegans Wake, World War II broke out in
Europe and the Joyces left Paris for the south of France while awaiting
permission to again enter Switzerland. Three weeks after their arrival in
Zurich, Joyce underwent surgery for peritonitis, caused by a perforated
duodenal ulcer. He lapsed into a coma and died early on January 13, 1941. He is
buried in Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich beneath a statue of him by the American
sculptor Milton Hebald.
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and correspondence make up the bulk of the James Joyce
Collection, 1899-1968. Part of the collection comprises original Joyce
material, but most of the collection is material about Joyce, including
research and criticism. The material, therefore, is organized into two series:
I. James Joyce Writings and Correspondence, 1899-1958 (4.8 boxes), and II.
Materials About Joyce and His Works, 1902-1968 (6.2 boxes). This collection was
previously accessible only through a card catalog, but has been re-cataloged as
part of a retrospective conversion project.

Series I. is divided into three subseries. Subseries A. Works, consists
of holograph drafts, typescripts, page proofs, printed pages, notes, and
fragments of novels, poems, song lyrics, musical scores, limericks, and
translations by Joyce. The Ransom Center has the complete and final first edition page
proofs for

Ulysses (1922), with the author's
corrections and additions, as well as a typescript for the Ithaca episode, and
page proofs of a translation into French by Auguste Morel. In the collection
also are page proofs for
Finnegans Wake (1939), including
Continuation of a Work in Progress, and
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, and holograph
drafts for
Pomes Penyeach (1927), as well as other
poems. Joyce provided the musical score for
Dark Rosaleen, and the text, from
Finnegans Wake, for the musicals
May Song It Flourish and
The Riverrun, and manuscripts for these
works are present. A holograph draft of his translation into Italian of
Riders to the Sea (1905) by J. M. Synge, is
included here as well.

Subseries B. Correspondence, consists principally of letters regarding
Joyce's literary work. Outgoing letters by Joyce were written to his London
publisher Elkin Mathews, and Swiss publisher Daniel Brody; to editor Padraic
Colum; to literary friends Richard Aldington, John Byrne, Edouard Dujardin, and
Livia Veneziani Schmitz; to Irish tenor John Sullivan; to his Zurich pupil,
Victor Sax; to his daughter Lucia Joyce, and to his aunt Josephine Murray.
Incoming correspondence to Joyce amounts to three letters, from Maria Jolas, Al
Laney, and G. Herbert Thring.

Subseries C. Personal Papers, consists of personal items relating to
Joyce such as items withdrawn from books in his Trieste library, a receipt to
him for the Swedish translation of

The Dubliners (1931), two memoranda of
agreement with Albatross Verlag and one with The Egoist, Ltd., and a report
regarding an operation on Joyce's left eye by Dr. Alfred Vogt.

Series II. Materials About Joyce and His Works, consists of
correspondence and manuscripts principally pertaining to Joyce. There are
holograph drafts, typescripts, and galley proofs of

James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses
(1960), by Frank Budgen, as well as drafts of
James Joyce's Work in Progress and Old Norse
Poetry,Joyce's chapters of Going Forth by Day,My Friend James Joyce, and
Further recollections of James Joyce.

John Francis Byrne is represented in this section with five holograph
notebooks and galley proofs for his memoir

Silent Years (1953), an address given at
Cornell University in 1959, as well as numerous articles and a review of
Richard Ellmann's
James Joyce. Included also are four reviews
of
Silent Years, by Herbert Cahoon, Kuna Dolch,
Richard Ellmann, and W. B. Ready. The extensive Byrne correspondence
principally concerns
Silent Years. Incoming letters to Byrne are
from Robert Adams (of Cornell University), Sylvia Beach, Isabel MacGarry Crotty
(an old friend), Richard Ellmann, Robert Giroux (of Harcourt, Brace and
Company, Inc.), John Stanislaus Joyce, Lucia Joyce, and from several friends.
There are also letters from Farrar, Straus & Young, Inc., and from authors
Vivian Mercier, Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and Mabel Worthington,
among others.

A typescript of a speech by Richard Ellmann,

James Joyce, Irish European, is here, as
well as writings by Stuart Gilbert such as a biographical sketch on Joyce for
the
Dictionary of National Biography, page
proofs for his
James Joyce's Ulysses (1930), and a small
folder of Joyceana. There are galley proofs for a review copy of
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years
(1958) by Stanislaus Joyce; numerous articles about Joyce or his
writings by James Findlay Hendry, Helen Joyce, Lucie Leon, Josiah Mitchell
Morse, Joseph Prescott, and Derek S. Savage, among others; transcriptions of
radio broadcasts for the B.B.C. on Joyce by W. R. Rodgers and James Stephens;
and musical scores for
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo and
May Song It Flourish by J. Willard
Roosevelt. In addition to these writings referring to Joyce are several
political articles by Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington.

In addition to the letters already mentioned in this Series are letters
from Byrne's wife, Gertrude, as well as letters from Sylvia Beach, Stuart
Gilbert, Harriet Weaver, Edward Titus, Herbert Thring, and others.

For further information see

Joyce at Texas: Essays on the James Joyce Materials
at the Humanities Research Center by Dave Oliphant and Thomas Zigal,
Austin, 1983, a complete issue of
The Library Chronicle devoted to James
Joyce. For information on the Trieste library see
Catalogue of James Joyce's Trieste Library
by Michael Gillespie, Austin, 1986. A published facsimile of the page
proofs of
Ulysses is available for patron use.

Elsewhere in the Ransom Center are nine Vertical File folders which contain
several maps of Ireland, postcards and articles about the Irish rebellion of
1916 and other related political matters, reviews and press notices of Joyce's
works, exhibition catalogs, publishers advertisements, a wood block with type
set for

Ulysses, and articles and obituaries
following Joyce's death. The Art Collection holds busts of Joyce by Sava
Botzaris and Jo Davidson, as well as sculptures, paintings, and drawings by
George Barker, Frank Budgen, Zdzislaw Czermanski, Desmond Harmsworth, Augustus
John, Harry Kernoff, Wyndham Lewis, Ivan Opffer, A. L. Price, Louis Sargent,
and Schoor. Several photos of Joyce can be found in the Photography Collection.
The Ransom Center is also home to the 564 volumes from Joyce's Trieste library, formed
between 1904 and 1920.

Other manuscripts and letters by Joyce can be found in the collections
of Edouard Dujardin, Morris Ernst, Stuart Gilbert, Oliver St. John Gogarty, the
James Joyce/Lake collection, Christopher Morley, PEN, John Rodker, Evelyn
Scott, Maurice Saillet, and Thornton Wilder.

Ulysses page proofs which can be
circulated only to scholars having a specific and compelling need to consult
the original proofs. A published facsimile of the page proofs of
Ulysses is available for patron use.
Processed by

Sally M. Nichols, 1998

Index Terms
Correspondents
Brody, DanielBrudgen, Frank,
1882-1971Byrne, John Francis,
1880-Ellmann, Richard,
1918-Gilbert, StuartSchmitz, Livia (Veneziani),
1874-1957Sheehy-Skeffington,
Francis, 1878-1916Sheehy-Skeffington,
HannaSullivan, JohnFarrar, Straus and Young
Subjects
Authors, Irish--20th centuryNovelists, Irish--20th centuryIreland in literature
Document Types
Christmas cardsContractsFinancial
recordsGalley proofsPostcardsScores
Sources
Ellmann, Richard.
James Joyce (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1982).Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 36
(Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1985).Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 162
(Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1996).
Folder List
Series I. James Joyce Writings and Correspondence,
1899-1958Subseries A. Works,
1899-195811Untitled poem,
O, it is cold...,nd,2ppDark Rosaleen, music by James
Joyce
(1899), so recalled by Cranley words by James
Clarence Mangan,
1958, 2pp [removed to Oversize Flat Files]12Finnegans Wake, Continuation of a Work in
Progress, page proof fragments, 18pp; page proof fragments with
corrections and markings,
1928, 8ppGoldenhair, poem from
Chamber Music set to music by T.
W. Southam,
1949, 4 pp [removed to Oversize Flat Files]13Limerick,
There is a young gallant named
Sax...,nd,1pMay Song it Flourish, music by J.
Willard Roosevelt and words from
Finnegans Wake by James
JoyceTwo holograph musical scores, of which one is vocal
score,
nd [removed to Oversize Flat Files]Photographed musical score, bound,
nd [removed to Oversize Flat Files]Molly Bloomagain, song lyrics,
nd, 1p [on verso of letter to Mr. Martinez, folder
2.3]14Notes on St. Paul,
nd,1pPastimes of James Joyce,1941, holograph photocopy, 7 pp; typescript and carbon copy of
introductory material, 3pp; proof of introductory material, 3pp; proof copy,
3pp [removed to Oversize Flat Files]15Pomes Penyeach (1927), nd,5pp16The Riverrun, for speaker and
orchestra, words by James Joyce from
Finnegans Wake, and music by
Humphrey Searle,
1951,47pp17Synge, J. M.,
Riders to the Sea (1905), translated into Italian by James Joyce and
Nicolo Vidacovich,
nd,26pp18Tales Told of Shem and Shaun,
proof with corrections and revisions,
nd19To Mrs. Herbert Gorman Who Complains that
Her Visitors Kept Late Hours,1931,1pUlysses(1922)110Ithaca episode, typescript,
nd,1pSchema,
1921Typescript on four leaves pasted together to make
one long sheet [removed to Galley Files]Carbon copy typescript on four leaves pasted
together to make one long sheet [removed to Galley Files]Complete and final page proofs with the author's
autograph corrections, emendations, and additions, and signed notes by Joyce
and Sylvia Beach [housed separately in three custom made document cases,
with gatherings in separate folders]111Translated into French by Auguste Morel, page proofs
with corrections by Stuart Gilbert,
1928,870pp112Watching the Needleboats at San
Sabba, poem,
1913,1pSubseries B. Correspondence,
1903-1939Outgoing Correspondence,
1903-1939113Unidentified; A-I,
1903-1940, nd114Bollach, Miss,
1925115Bonner, Eugene,
192421Brody, Daniel,
1931-193322Colum, Padraic,
191223J-Z,
1905-1940, nd24-5Schmitz, Livia Veneziani,
1929-193926Sullivan, John,
193227Incoming Correspondence, Unidentified and A-Z,
1929, ndSubseries C. Personal Papers,
1907-193228Book withdrawals from Trieste library29France. Customs Bureau, receipt to James Joyce for
Swedish translation of
The Dubliners, 1931Memoranda of Agreement between James Joyce
andAlbatross Verlag re210The Dubliners,1931,1p210Ulysses, two copies,
1932,3pp and 1p211The Egoist, Ltd. re
Ulysses, 1920,3pp212Postal deposit book from Trieste,
1907-1912Signature and address on small card,
nd213Vogt, Dr. Alfred, report re operation on left eye,
1930,1pSeries II. Materials About Joyce and His Works,
1902-1968214A-Z correspondence,
1915-1968Unidentified authors215List of Joyce items,
nd,1p215Notes on Irish political forces,
nd,4pp215Notes on
Ulysses, nd,4pp215Opinions of Sant-Andrea and Gerber,
nd,1p216Abercrombie, Lascelles (and others), Protest against
unauthorized publication of
Ulysses by Samuel Roth,
1927,1pBeach, Sylvia217Correspondence,
1926-1929Printed protest against Samuel Roth's edition of
Ulysses and typed carbon copy list
of signers,
1927 [bound with letter to Ettore Schmitz, folder
2.10]Budgen, FrankJames Joyce and the Making of Ulysses
(1960)31Correspondence,
nd32-5Holograph and typescript miscellaneous notes, early
chapters, all with extensive revisions,
193336-8Holograph with extensive revisions,
1933,348pp41-5Typescript and carbon copy with emendations,
1933Galley proof with extensive corrections and revisions,
nd, 1p [removed to Galley Files]46James Joyce's Work in Progress and Old
Norse Poetry,nd,13pp47Joyce's chapters of Going Forth by Day,
nd,32pp48List of names to receive review copies of one of his
books,
nd,2pp49My Friend James Joyce,
nd410Further recollections of James Joyce,
nd,21pp411Notes on some correspondences between Joyce's
Finnegans Wake and the
Egyptian Book of the Dead, 1955, holograph with revisions, 5pp; typescript with
corrections, 4pp412Symbols in
Finnegans Wake, nd,1p51Byrne, Gertrude, correspondence,
1954-1955Byrne, John Francis52Outgoing correspondence,
1917-1959Incoming correspondence53A-L,
1909-195954Adams, Robert M.,
195955Ellmann, Richard,
1953-195856Farrar, Straus & Young,
1952-195557M-Z,
1908-195958Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis,
1910-191561Untitled article on war situation,
1915,6ppA-P62Address given... at Cornell University,
1959, typescript with revisions, and
carbon copy of revised version,26pp each62List of names requested in items 20
& 21 in your questionnaire,nd,4pp62Notebook,
1940-1941,8pp62A Parable in Gold by J.F. Renby, pseud.,
nd,13pp62Preparedness,
1915,15ppReceipts, financial statements, certificates63Catholic University of Ireland, three printed
receipts,
1903-190563Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., royalty statement to
John F. Byrne and Gertrude Rodman Byrne,
195463Ireland, Branch Medical Council, certificate of
registration for John Francis Byrne,
1902,1p63The National University of Ireland, certification of
record for John F. Byrne,
1923,1p64Review of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann,
1959, two typescripts with revisions and additions, 6pp each;
carbon copy final draft with emendations, 9pp65The Road to Hell,
nd,4ppSilent Years(1953)66-7Five holograph notebooks,
nd,68Blurb, typescript with revisions,
1953,1p69Memorandum re,
1953,1pGalley proofs with corrections,
nd, 109pp [removed to Galley Files]T-Z610Tammany Hall,
nd,12pp610The Throne of Chaos,
1917, holograph draft with revisions, 10pp; typescript with
emendations, 18pp610War or Peace?,
1916,3ppC-E611Cahoon, Herbert, review of
Silent Years by J. F. Byrne,
1953,1p611Davis, Ronald, bill of sale to Edward W. Titus for the
works of Paul Verlaine and
Ulysses, 1927611Dolch, Kuna, review of
Silent Years by J. F. Byrne,
1953,1pEglington, John, Extract from
Irish Letter,nd, 2pp [with letter from Harriet Weaver, in folder
3.4]611Ellmann, Richard611James Joyce, Irish European,
speech,
1966,10pp611Review of
Silent Years by J. F. Byrne,
1954611Portrait of the Artist's
Friend, carbon copy typescript,
1954,3ppGalley proofs [removed to Galley Files]Gilbert, Stuart612Correspondence,
1949, nd613It is an interesting experience to visit
one of the great art museums in the company of an expert...,nd,3pp614James Joyce: a biographical sketch written for the
Dictionary of National Biography,
bound,
nd,5pp615James Joyce's Ulysses(1930), page proof, bound and boxed,395ppJoyceana616Introduction to his edition of
Letters of James Joyce (1957), holograph with revisions,
nd,83pp616The Wanderings of Ulysses,
proofs of article,
nd,7pp616Four letters and postcards from Stanislaus
Joyce71Notes sent during translation of
Ulysses into French to M. August
Morel,
nd72Hendry, James Findlay,
The Element of Myth in James
Joyce,1945,15pp73Joyce, Helen,
Portrait of the Artist by His
Daughter-in-Law,nd,14pp74Joyce, Stanislaus,
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early
Years (1958), galley proofs for review copy,
nd,186pp75Lennon, Michael J.,
James Joyce,nd,17pp76Leon, Lucie,
The Story of a Friendship (James Joyce and
Paul L. Leon), by Lucie Noel, pseud.,
1948-1949,42pp77Liddy, James,
Esau, My Kingdom for a Drink: Homage to
James Joyce on His LXXX Birthday,1962,14pp78Morse, Josiah Mitchell,
The Sympathetic Alien; James Joyce and
Catholicism,1954-1955?,109ppO-Rob79O'Gorman, James A. and others, petition to the
government of the Irish Free State,
nd,1p79Prescott, JosephJames Joyce, biography for
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
typescript,
(1947), 4pp; corrected page proofs, 2ppJames Joyce's Ulysses as a Work in Progress,1944,3pp79Ready, W. B., review of
Silent Years by J. F. Byrne,
clipping,
195479Roberts,?, extract from Roberts' article on
Ulysses published in the
Colophon 1936,1p710Rodgers, W. R.,
Portrait of James Joyce, B.B.C.
radio broadcast,
1950,78ppRoosevelt, J. WillardThe Leaden Echo and the Golden
EchoHolograph musical scores with words by Gerard Manley Hopkins,
nd [score removed to Oversize Flat Files]711Score in notebookMay Song It Flourish,
instrumental parts, holograph in hand of Donald Pegago,
nd [removed to Oversize Flat Files]712Schwartz, Jacob, correspondence from Stanislaus
Joyce, 1951 (removed from PR 6019 O9 D8
1914 cop,2 HRC)
713Savage, Derek S., James Joyce, bound,
nd,68pp714Shaw, George Bernard, power of attorney for legal
proceedings,
1919,1pSheehy-Skeffington, Francis81Correspondence,
1914-1915, nd81English Militarism in Ireland,1915,61pp81A Forgotten Small Nationality: Ireland
and the War,1915,3pp81The Grand Duke of Ireland: Mr. John
Redmond's Strategic Retirement,1915,4pp81Labor and the War: How It Stands in
Ireland and England,1915,9pp81Redmond's New Stand,1915,4pp81Speech from the Dock,nd,12ppSheehy-Skeffington, Hanna82Correspondence,
192282British Militarism As I Have Known
It,nd,21pp83Spoerri, James Fuller,
The Odyssey Press edition of James Joyce's
Ulysses,1954,4ppStephens, JamesBroadcasts for the B.B.C.84Ariel in Wartime--Obituary on James
Joyce,1941,5pp85The James Joyce I Knew,1946,5pp86Readings from
Finnegans Wake, 1947,6pp87The James Joyce I Knew,nd,1p88Written for James Joyce on Our Mutual
Birthday, 2nd February, poem,
nd,1pTindall, William Y.89-10James Joyce: A Study, typescript with emendations,
1958-1959,325pp811Review of
Joyce et Mallarmé by David
Hayman,
nd
Index of Correspondents

Index entries followed by the notation (from Joyce) indicate people to
whom Joyce wrote. Box and folder numbers followed by a number in parenthesis
indicate the number of items by (or to) that person. No parenthetical notation
indicates there is just one item. So in the example

Byrne, John Francis, 1880- --1.13 (6 from Joyce), 5.2 (78)

there are six items from Joyce in box 1, folder 13; and 78 items from
Byrne in box 5, folder 2.